Download or read book VIA Rail Canada Inc and the Future of Passenger Rail in Canada written by Jean Dupuis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VIA Rail Canada Inc and the future of passenger rail in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its 33-year history, VIA Rail Canada Inc. has managed its (non-legislated) mandate of maintaining passenger rail services with relatively limited resources. It has improved its operational efficiency in recent years despite ongoing constraints, including its lack of independence from federal Cabinet decision-making, its reliance on unpredictable federal subsidies, the sharing of rail tracks and other fixed facilities with CNR and CPR, and the fact that it has little or no latitude in deciding whether to focus on profitable routes or discard uneconomical ones. At current funding levels, together with an aging rolling stock and rail infrastructure, VIA's capacity to deliver passenger rail services will eventually begin to decline. High-speed rail has often been proclaimed as the possible future for passenger rail in Canada, but the prohibitive price tag associated with developing and building such a complex system presents a huge challenge to governments and public finances. The current economic climate, uncertainty associated with the future growth potential of high-speed passenger rail, the availability of alternative and competitively priced modes of transportation, and VIA's continued reliance on government support, all conspire against the introduction of high-speed rail in the near term in Canada.

Download or read book The Heritage and the Future of Passenger Rail written by VIA Rail Canada and published by Via Rail Canada. This book was released on 1985 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VIA Rail Canada and the Future of Passenger Rail in Canada written by Jean Dupuis and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Passenger Rail Transportation written by Luigi Franco and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Renaissance of Passenger Rail written by Pierre A. H. Franche and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Getting on Board Or Running Off the Rails written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In June of 2012, Via Rail management announced cutbacks in both employment and train frequency. Earlier that year, the Government of Canada announced (through its omnibus budget bill) another round of cutbacks in Via Rail's public funding. The cutbacks by the Harper Conservatives threaten the viability of passenger rail in Canada. This paper will catalogue the cutbacks, put them in historical and international context and then sketch a possible future for rail passenger renewal in Canada. We believe that the decline of passenger rail is neither desirable nor inevitable. We think it's time for a fresh approach to the funding and organization of Via Rail. The revitalization of passenger rail will require leadership from government, vision from management and cooperation from the employees who actually move people"--

Download or read book VIA Rail written by Christopher C. N. Greenlaw and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go VIA Rail and see Canada: Here is Canada’s national railway, covering 14,000 kilometers of track from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. This illustrated history tells the story of how, starting in the early 1970s, VIA Rail became a separate Crown corporation, once and for all relieving the old Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways of their beleaguered passenger operations. It is a story rich in history—and marked with failures and misfortunes right up to our day, when a need for convenient, fuel-efficient mass transportation holds out hope for a renaissance. Archival and modern photography, route maps, and print ads help detail the history of VIA Rail’s motive power and passenger cars from the likes of General Motors, Bombardier, Montreal Locomotive Works, and Budd Company, as well such passenger trains as The Canadian, The Atlantic, The Ocean, and The Super Continental. Chris Greenlaw also explains all of the political machinations that have inevitably shaped the railroad, and delves into its connection with Amtrak via The Maple Leaf.

Download or read book High speed Passenger Rail in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of passenger rail transportation in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Future Role of Rail written by Ontario Task Force on Provincial Rail Policy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book High speed Passenger Rail in Canada written by VIA Rail Canada and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Business at a Glance written by Canada. VIA Rail Canada and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIA Rail operates Canada's national passenger rail service on behalf of the Government of Canada and provides a safe, cost-effective and environmentally responsible service from coast to coast.

Download or read book VIA Rail written by Chris Greenlaw, Christopher C. N. Greenlaw and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Departures written by Anthony Perl and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America faces a transportation crisis. Gas-guzzling SUVs clog the highways and air travelers face delays, cancellations, and uncertainty in the wake of unprecedented terrorist attacks. New Departures closely examines the options for improving intercity passenger trains’ capacity to move North Americans where they want to go. While Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada face intense pressure to transform themselves into successful commercial enterprises, Anthony Perl demonstrates how public policy changes lie behind the triumphs of European and Japanese high-speed rail passenger innovations. Perl goes beyond merely describing these achievements, translating their implications into a North American institutional and political context and diagnosing the obstacles that have made renewing passenger trains so much more difficult in North America than elsewhere. New Departures links the lessons behind rail passenger revitalization abroad with the opportunity to recast the policies that constrain Amtrak and VIA Rail from providing efficient and effective intercity transportation.

Download or read book Wheeling through Toronto written by Albert Koehl and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting an important yet often ignored part of Toronto’s transportation story, Wheeling through Toronto chronicles the history of the bicycle and reveals a way forward for a world in climate crisis. Throughout its history in Toronto, the bicycle’s place on the roads and in public esteem has fluctuated wildly: flaunted as fashionable, disparaged and derided, rescued from looming obscurity, and promoted as a way to respond to the challenges of the day. What is it about the simple bicycle that it can be so loved by some yet despised and detested by others? Wheeling through Toronto offers a 130-year ride from the 1890s to the present to help answer this question. Albert Koehl, a Toronto lawyer and leading cycling advocate, chronicles the tumultuous history of this mode of transportation from the bicycle craze at the turn of the century, to the rise of the car and the motorway in the 1950s, to the intensifying cry for active transportation in the 1990s and into pandemic times. In an era of catastrophic climate events, Wheeling through Toronto highlights how the bicycle should be celebrated not only as hope for the future, but also for its affordability, for its contribution to clean and healthy mobility, and because it brings happiness and joy to so many. Drawing on archival materials, newspapers, and personal interviews, and full of fascinating vignettes, this book presents the story of how we got here and what Torontonians need to know as we pedal forward.

Download or read book VIA Rail Canada Inc et l avenir du service ferroviaire voyageurs au Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pendant ses 33 années d'histoire, VIA Rail Canada Inc. est parvenue à s'acquitter du mandat (non législatif) d'assurer des services ferroviaires voyageurs avec des ressources relativement limitées. Elle a amélioré son efficience opérationnelle ces dernières années malgré l'existence de plusieurs contraintes : sa dépendance à l'égard des décisions du Cabinet fédéral, l'imprévisibilité des subventions fédérales, l'obligation de partager les voies ferrées et autres éléments d'infrastructure avec le CN et le CP, ainsi que le manque ou l'absence de latitude qui permettrait de privilégier les trajets rentables et abandonner ceux qui ne le sont pas. Sans augmentation des niveaux de financement et avec le vieillissement du matériel roulant et de l'infrastructure ferroviaire, la capacité de VIA d'assurer des services voyageurs est appelée à décliner. Le train à grande vitesse est souvent présenté comme le sauveur du transport ferroviaire de voyageurs au Canada, mais l'ampleur des frais de développement et d'aménagement d'un réseau aussi complexe pose un énorme défi aux gouvernements et aux finances publiques. Le climat économique actuel, le potentiel de croissance incertain du train à grande vitesse, la disponibilité d'autres modes de transport compétitifs et la dépendance de VIA à l'égard du gouvernement, voilà autant de facteurs qui jouent contre l'aménagement à court terme de liaisons ferroviaires à grande vitesse au Canada.